WHO Europe Warns of Covid Rise in Russia and Ukraine
Visitors queue for swab tests at a Covid-19 rapid testing site in the GUM luxury department store in Moscow, Russia.
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Copenhagen, Denmark (AP) -- The head of the World Health Organization's Europe office said Tuesday that health officials are turning their attention to growing rates of COVID-19 infection in Eastern Europe, where six countries — including Russia and Ukraine — have seen a doubling in case counts over the last two weeks.
Dr. Hans Kluge said the 53-country region, which stretches to former Soviet republics into central Asia, has now tallied more than 165 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 1.8 million deaths linked to the pandemic — including 25,000 in the last week alone.